freeBASIC (a 32-bit QB-syntax compatible compiler) preview..

[barok]

Rel, you are wetting my throat for freebasic...

Seriously, those plasmas and demos you're making are SO awesome!!! They look great even full screen! I can't wait for freebasic!!!

And everything else aetherfox said.

[marzecTM]

There's a lot of "inline" functions and defines. That's the tricky part, I guess. We could organize a small team to port Allegro. It would be nifty that another team would port SDL.

SDL is already ported...

[na_th_an]

Heh - do you seriously think that I was gonna read 8 pages of threads

Good news, tho'.

[marzecTM]

eight posts above...

[KiZ]

Is it ye old

WAIT &h3da, 8
WAIT &h3da, 8, 8

gonna work?

( i know its for anti - flicker, but i use it for delays as well)
or are we going to have to think up our own delay routines? If so, will the new TIMER have a decent enough accuracy for very small delays? Or maybe will you be introducing a new TIMER function?

[Jofers]

No, and the millisecond timer object comes standard with the win32 api, as well as a getTicks function in SDL.

[marzecTM]

if somebody wants to do some demos with sdl, ask v3c wheter he gives you the last version of the compiler (won't run with the here available version). i'd really appreciate having somebody else doing some demos as i'm pretty busy with other stuff

the url to the sdl headers:
http://ratatoskr.bad-logic.com/fb/sdl

url to sdl (you'll need sdl.lib and sdlmain.lib to link to your files, plus sdl.dll in the system32 dir or in the path where your executable of the demo lies )

http://www.libsdl.org

[na_th_an]

eight posts above...

May I ask you forgive my life? 8)

[aetherfox]

Please, please, please and pretty please with a cherry on top make sure this has good documentation.

It's just sad that the majority of community and open sourced products have poor documentation, which really puts most new people off.

WEBSITE!!!

[marzecTM]

eight posts above...

May I ask you forgive my life? 8)

you shall be forgiven son .. hehe nm